Inspiring
Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality
Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too. Tags: choices, Innovation, Inspiring, irrational decisions, irrationality, Laurie Santos, monkeys, [...]
Lewis Pugh’s mind-shifting Mt. Everest swim
After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then, he heard of Mt. Everest’s Lake Imja — a body of water at an altitude of 5,300 meters, entirely created by recent glacial melting — and began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach [...]
Legos for grownups
Lego blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks’ colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open-source robotics and a little adult behavior. Tags: CAD, Hillel Cooperman, Innovation, Inspiring, Lego, Social
